Tag: Jon Favreau

Chef expands to theaters in Boston today, May 16. Check your local listings for showtimes. Our obsession with celebrity isn’t as fresh as the media often portrays it to be. We have been vociferously consuming the strangers that grace our screens for ages. We raise them on pedestals and they lived in a realm so …

‘Cowboys & Aliens’ from the very talented Jon Favreau merges two of my favorite genres, Science Fiction, and Westerns – but does it succeed? Based on a graphic novel by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, the film opens in the fashion of most typical westerns, a character shrouded in mystery rolls into town. Our stranger is played …

Robert Downey Jr. and Actor/Director Jon Favreau make a great team. Favreau is a great story teller that involves himself into his films, and its clear, all of them are made with love and passion. And Downey? Hell, he’s someone who I would watch in just about anything, and I mean that, it could be …

As “Iron Man 2,” got underway shooting yesterday, we got the first look at Robert Downey Jr., and Don Cheadle in the movie. They’re both wearing suits, so it’s not the most exciting of photos. However, IESB is reporting that comedian Garry Shandling will play a part in the new movie. Reportedly, Shandling shows up …

Robert Downey Jr. recently spoke with ET Online and gave a few hints about the story for the upcoming “Iron Man” sequel: “The film is almost entirely about character, and yet we still have twice as much action as we did last time, so it’s going to be nuts. Essentially Iron Man 2 is about …

A scoop has hit the pages of ‘Ain’t It Cool News,’ regarding the involvement of ‘Iron Man’ director Jon Favreau with the ‘Avengers’ movie. Apparently, the explanation behind the delay of the ensemble super-hero movie from mid-20011 to May 4th 2012 is so that Favreau could take the directors seat. Of course, as is the …

It’s official- Mickey Rourke has signed on to play the villain in “Iron Man 2.” Well, according to Deadline Hollywood Daily. This is exciting because for a while the rumor was that he was only going to get the part if he won the Oscar. Well, guess that’s just a rumor. Also, as previously thought, …

At one of the many after-show parties on Sunday, director Jon Favreau told E! that Fox has exercised its option on “Gulliver’s Travels,” meaning that Emily Blount will not be able to be in “Iron Man 2.” Blount was wanted to play future Avenger Black Widow. Rumored to be on the short-list for the role …

Marvel Productions wants Mickey Rourke for the role of the villain in “Iron Man 2.” However, times being what they are, they don’t want to pay Rourke’s asking price. Now, reports are circulating that Marvel is waiting until Sunday night to make Rourke an offer. Why Sunday night? Because it’s the Oscars. If Rourke picks …

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